U.S. Senate See Full Big Line

(D) J. Hickenlooper*

(D) Julie Gonzales

(R) Janak Joshi

80%

20%

10%

(D) Michael Bennet (D) Phil Weiser
55% 50%↑
Att. General See Full Big Line

(D) Jena Griswold

(D) M. Dougherty

(D) Hetal Doshi

40%↓

30%

30%

Sec. of State See Full Big Line
(D) J. Danielson (D) A. Gonzalez
50%↓ 30%↑
State Treasurer See Full Big Line

(D) Jeff Bridges

(R) Kevin Grantham

80%↑

20%↓

CO-01 (Denver) See Full Big Line

(D) Diana DeGette*

(D) Milat Kiros

(D) Wanda James

70%↓

20%↑

10%↓

CO-02 (Boulder-ish) See Full Big Line

(D) Joe Neguse*

(R) Somebody

90%

2%

CO-03 (West & Southern CO) See Full Big Line

(R) Jeff Hurd*

(D) Alex Kelloff

(R) H. Scheppelman

60%↓

30%↓

20%↑

CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado) See Full Big Line

(R) Lauren Boebert*

(D) E. Laubacher

80%

20%

CO-05 (Colorado Springs) See Full Big Line

(R) Jeff Crank*

(D) Jessica Killin

53%↓

48%↑

CO-06 (Aurora) See Full Big Line

(D) Jason Crow*

(R) Somebody

90%

2%

CO-07 (Jefferson County) See Full Big Line

(D) B. Pettersen*

(R) Somebody

90%

2%

CO-08 (Northern Colo.) See Full Big Line

(R) Gabe Evans*

(D) Shannon Bird

(D) Manny Rutinel

45%↓

30%

30%

State Senate Majority See Full Big Line

DEMOCRATS

REPUBLICANS

80%

20%

State House Majority See Full Big Line

DEMOCRATS

REPUBLICANS

95%

5%

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Why #Beetlebert Could End Lauren Boebert’s Career in Congress

We’ve written about the #Beetlebert scandal as it has unfolded this week, including the latest video evidence that Rep. Lauren Boebert’s spokespeople were flat-out lying when they denied allegations that Boebert was vaping in the theater during a performance in Denver of the popular Beetlejuice musical. It’s important now to take a step back from […]

CU Boulder’s New Right-Wing Professor Praises Chancellor

(“Conservative affirmative action” tries to live down John Eastman — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Last month law professor Todd Zywicki spoke at the Steamboat Institute’s Freedom Conference, an annual gathering of conservative pundits and professionals that has veered further right in recent years. David O. Williams previewed the event for the Colorado Times Recorder. Before […]

Boebert’s Vaping Lie Explodes Like a Lithium Battery

The story of far-right GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert’s ejection from Denver’s Buell Theater Sunday night after causing a disturbance during the performance of the new Beetlejuice musical took a damaging turn yesterday, after new video surfaced conclusively disproving Boebert’s contention that she was not vaping during the performance before she was booted out. NBC News: […]

La Plata County GOP Declares War On Local Paper

This week, the Durango Herald’s Reuben Schafir had the honor of reporting on a protest by the La Plata County Republican Party against his own employer the Herald, and by extension himself. It’s an interesting journalistic predicament: Approximately 20 protesters, including leaders of the La Plata County Republican Central Committee, convened outside The Durango Herald […]

The Tawdry, Trashy Spectacle of “Beetlebert”

UPDATE #2: The Denver Post’s Megan Schrader tracked down one of the theatergoers affected by Rep. Lauren Boebert’s bad behavior leading to Boebert getting escorted out of the Buell Theater in Denver Sunday night. You’ve got to read this to believe it: “These people in front of us were outrageous. I’ve never seen anyone act […]

Get More Smarter on Wednesday (Sept. 13)

On this day in 1985, Super Mario Bros. was first released on the Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget […]

Progressives Call For Boebert To Protect Southwest Colorado From Matt Gaetz

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, September 12, 2023 CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at sara@progressnowcolorado.org DENVER: Responding to plans by far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert to bring Rep. Matt Gaetz, the outspoken “Christian” member of Congress recently investigated in connection with sex scandals, sex trafficking, illegal drug use, and sex with a minor to southwest Colorado to […]

Ken Buck Tellingly Spares Boebert As The Knives Come Out

UPDATE: One Buck forward, Two Bucks back as Politico reports this afternoon: Ken Buck, a member of the House Freedom Caucus who was previously skeptical of an impeachment inquiry, seems to have changed his mind after Speaker Kevin McCarthy moved to open the inquiry without a vote. “I think it’s a good move. We have […]

McCarthy Caves on Impeachment…Sort Of

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given in to the crazies in the Republican caucus and agreed to move forward with an impeachment investigation into President Biden. This impeachment effort will be much different than either of the impeachment investigations into former President Donald Trump in large part because it’s not actually clear what Biden might have […]

Scott Gessler: The Lawyer Trump Hasn’t Stiffed (Yet)

As the legal campaign seeking accountability over the attempt by ex-President Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 presidential election has advanced to the criminal justice phase in the last few months, we’ve spent most of our time in this space discussing two lawyers with local ties involved in the plot who are now facing felony […]

Who Among You Will be the First to Sign this Pledge?

Early in the summer, Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dave Williams announced that he had formed an alliance of some sort between the Colorado GOP and the Colorado Libertarian Party (LPCO). Nearly four months later, the results of this alliance have proven to be a bit elusive. The stated goal — from Williams’s point of view, […]

ProgressNow Colorado’s 20th Anniversary Gala at Casa Bonita

In the twenty years since ProgressNow Colorado was originally organized as the Rocky Mountain Progressive Network, our state has witnessed an historic shift away from the far-right special interests that previously dominated the debate on every issue. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of Colorado’s largest multi-issue progressive advocacy organization, ProgressNow Colorado is […]

Get More Smarter on Monday (Sept. 11)

President Biden issued a A Proclamation on Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance for today, marking the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Governor Jared Polis ordered all flags to be lowered to half-staff today in memoriam of those who lost their lives that day. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we […]

Smaller Government Strategy is Drowning in its Own Bathtub

New polling data from CNN/SSRS was released on Thursday that made headlines largely because it showed significant vulnerabilities for President Biden, including a topline finding that Biden and former President Donald Trump are running neck-and-neck in a hypothetical 2024 rematch. Analysis from ABC News, for example, exclaimed that CNN’s new polling was “nothing but bad […]

Ken Buck’s Mavericky Misgivings Set Off MTG X-Bomb

Earlier this week, GOP Rep. Ken Buck set off a political firestorm when he responded in smackdown-laying detail to a falsehood-ridden letter sent from the Colorado Republican Party urging lawmakers to make the plight of January 6th, 2021 insurrection “political prisoners” a “top priority.” The Denver Post’s Nick Coltrain: Buck, a former chair of the […]

CO GOP Leaders Want To End Primary Neutrality Rule So They Can Oppose Their Own Candidates

(There is no Colorado GOP anymore, it’s the Dave Williams Club now — Promoted by Colorado Pols) If Colorado GOP leaders get their way, the party could campaign against some of its own candidates in next spring’s primary election. The party’s Bylaws Committee is recommending an amendment that would alter the longstanding primary neutrality rule […]

Get More Smarter on Thursday (Sept. 7)

We haven’t done one of these roundups in awhile, and we need to get back in the habit. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And […]

“Gabbin’ Gabe” Evans Mansplains Into CD-8 GOP Primary

As the Colorado Sun’s Jesse Paul reports, freshman Republican state Rep. Gabe Evans of Fort Lupton is the latest to throw his hat in the ring to challenge incumbent Democratic Rep. Yadira Caraveo in Colorado’s ultra-swing CD-8–hoping in the process that his hat doesn’t immediately get shredded by the Colorado Republican Party’s recent lurch to […]

Colo GOP Leadership’s ‘Top Priority:’ Supporting Jan. 6 Prisoners

(Updated Tuesday with must-read response from Rep. Ken Buck — Promoted by Colorado Pols)     UPDATE: Congressman Ken Buck has responded to Todd Watkins’ call for Colorado Republicans to support the Jan. 6 prisoners. In a letter of his own dated Sept. 1, Buck points out multiple incorrect assertions and calls on Watkins to […]

Pueblo Abortion-Ban Johnny Appleseed’s Latest Creepy Plot

Readers will recall a brief but heated dispute in Pueblo last November over a proposed municipal ordinance to ban abortion within city limits, the work product of an itinerant Texas-based anti-abortion pitchman named Mark Lee Dickson. Dickson, a self-professed “36-year-old virgin” who proudly admits to having been present at the January 6th, 2021 insurrection at […]

First Domino Settles after Moreno Resignation

Democrats have concluded the first step in the necessary seat shifting and vacancy committee requirements set in motion by the early August resignation of Senate Majority Leader Dominick Moreno, who left his job at the state legislature in order to take a position as Deputy Chief of Staff in Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s administration. At […]

Boebert Once Again Substitutes Tweeting For Governing

As Ernest Luning reports for the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog, most of Colorado’s congressional delegation representing both parties signed a letter to the Internal Revenue Service this week, asking as they did last year during a similar brief period of uncertainty to not treat refunds to taxpayers under Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights as […]

DeSantis Already Shutting Down In Super Tuesday States

NBC News reports today that Never Back Down, the SuperPAC working on behalf of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ flagging presidential campaign is, well, backing down from field campaign efforts in several key Super Tuesday primary states: Never Back Down, the super PAC backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign, has ceased its door-knocking operations in […]

No Thanks To “Tactical Support” From Haters

Following up on last weekend’s anti-LGBTQ+ counterprotest both outside and confrontationally within the Douglas County PrideFest, 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark reports that an organization known as Able Shepherd, which bills itself as a “progressive tactical training program,” played a large role in organizing the disruptive protest inside the event. As a result, this organization with surprisingly […]

Trump Buttering Up Colorado MAGA Loyalists

UPDATE: As Erik Maulbetsch reports for the Colorado Times Recorder, the Colorado Republican Party is pushing its people to sign a pledge in support of the “January 6 prisoners.” Trump’s message has definitely been received. —– [mantra-pullquote align=”right” textalign=”left” width=”60%”]“These are incredible Colorado patriots, that’s for sure.” — Donald Trump in a video naming El […]

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